Construction Progress

ID: 5253 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the University of Washington Digital Archives.

This file appears in: The Collapse of the Division Street Bridge: A Tragedy Paved the Way for Concrete Bridges

The task for reconstruction was given to the Washington Paving Company, with this wooden span serving temporarily before a concrete bridge was completed in 1917.

This file appears in: The Collapse of the Division Street Bridge: A Tragedy Paved the Way for Concrete Bridges

The Collapse of the Division Street Bridge: A Tragedy Paved the Way for Concrete Bridges

By Steven Fry

With five men dead, twelve injured, and neighborhoods cut off from gas and electricity, the collapse of the Division Street bridge in 1915 remains one of Spokane's worst disasters. In the wake of the…